Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or position of an under-secretary.
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Examples
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I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.
Phineas Finn 2004
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You should get an under-secretaryship in the next government. '
The Explorer 1919
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At present she was having supper with a nasty-looking man, with long hair and an eyeglass, who was reputed to be a rising politician, in the running for an under-secretaryship, and was also reputed to be in love with Molly.
No Man's Land 1912
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From that moment both the Attorney General and the Prime Minister marked him out for distinction; he rose without any intermediary step of an under-secretaryship from a back-bencher to a Cabinet
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904
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The secretary has promised him an under-secretaryship in one of the
The Music Master Novelized from the Play Charles Klein 1891
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He was to resign his under-secretaryship; but with the new session and a certain rearrangement of offices it was probable that he would be brought back into the Ministry.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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She was led by them to think of the many workmen friends she had made during the year of her nursing life; while he had remembrances of much personal work and investigation of his own, undertaken during the time of his under-secretaryship, to add to hers.
Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885
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I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.
Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869
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I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.
Phineas Finn 1867
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I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.
Phineas Finn The Irish Member Anthony Trollope 1848
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